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Subject:Re: Friday - hazards to our van (LVC)
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:15:08 -0500

At 04:32 PM 1/17/2003, developtrust wrote:
>I just still do not believe a meteor will slow down enough to cause such
>minor damage. It has to be a hoax.

Well, it *did* go all the way through the car, and we don't get to see the
hole in the ground -- there's a woman out there somewhere who was in her
house when a meteorite came through the roof and whacked her on the thigh
-- made an awful bruise, but that's all.  Pretty sure you can find a
picture of the bruise, and maybe the meteorite too, on the web
somewhere.  Try snopes.com.  It was a lot smaller than that one though, I
believe.

More to the point, it wouldn't be a NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day if it
weren't real...

david

>William

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